Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2013-11-20-Speech-3-285-687"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2013-11-20"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Common provisions on European funds (A7-0274/2013 - Lambert van Nistelrooij, Constanze Angela Krehl)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20131120.47.3-285-687"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-11-20-Speech-3-285-7342
lpv:speaker	lp:Phil Prendergast2
lpv:spoken text	"The EU structural and cohesion funds were devised and are spent at local level with the most vulnerable regions and citizens in mind. Although the Left in this House was isolated in its opposition to so-called ‘macroeconomic conditionality’ in the negotiations with Member States, we could not withhold these funds any further. We fought for a higher share to be allocated to the European Social Fund, to tackle poverty and unemployment, particularly youth unemployment through education as well as training. In Ireland, as well as elsewhere, there are regional disadvantages and specific needs for transport and energy infrastructure, urban development and improved IT and communications networks. However, attaching macroeconomic conditions to the payment of structural funding goes against the very spirit and purpose behind it. Those who need it are not to blame for national breaches of the ever tighter budgetary constraints imposed by the fiscal hawks at the Commission and the Council of Ministers. Nor can we simply assume breaches, themselves, to be the outcome of profligacy, as should be evident after we had to save the financial sector from itself, only to fall prey to speculation on sovereign debt."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; S&D (2011-04-21--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2011-05-09--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AGRI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; IMCO (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Labour Party (2011-04-21--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary Committee (2011-05-05--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Phil Prendergast (S&D ),"1 "in writing"1

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